Many times when doing Evangelism on
the field, people will say to me that the Bible we have today is not
reliable, meaning it is no longer true to the original written
Manuscripts because it has been changed over and over again since
its completion two-thousand years ago. They will also say that it is
nothing more than a collection of documents written by men like any
other religious book, that there is no God who controlled men in
writing the sixty-six books of the Judeo-Christian Bible. Is this
true? Are the Greek and Hebrew Manuscripts we have today, that our
English Bibles are translated from, an exact copy of the original
rendering of the Old and New Testaments? Is there internal evidence
in the Scriptures beyond a reasonable doubt that God Himself
inspired, led and controlled men in their writing of the Scriptures?
I can say confidently and without hesitation, YES! there is.
In this Chapter we are going to present to you, first, external
Historical and Archaeological evidence that the Greek and Hebrew
Manuscripts that we have today are true to the original manuscripts.
Second, we are then going to show you internal evidence within the
manuscripts themselves of their being letter for letter not only
true to the original text, but by their very composition being
impossible for man Himself to have composed the text without God’s
divine literal absolute control in the writing of every single
letter within the text of the Bible.

HISTORICAL &

ARCHAEOLOGICAL
EVIDENCE

How are ancient Manuscripts tested for
reliability and accuracy?

Sanders in, Introduction to
Research in English Literary History, lists and explains the
three basic principles of historiography (methods of historical
scholarship).155/143 They are the

Bibliographical
test

The
Internal Evidence
test

And the
External Evidence
test

TheBibliographical Test
is an examination
of the textual transmission by which documents reach us.156/26
How reliable are the copies we have in regard to the number of
manuscripts (MSS) and the time interval between the original and
existing copy?

New Testament

Starting with the New Testament first, lets talk
about the existing N.T. MSS that we have. The books of the New
Testament were the most frequently copied and widely circulated
books of antiquity.157/50 There are over 24,970+
manuscript copies of portions of the New Testament in existence
today: 5,686 (99') known Greek manuscripts, 10,000 Latin Vulgate and
8,300 other early versions and translations in Syriac, Egyptian,
Arabic, Ethiopian, Armenian, Persian, Gothic, and Slavonic, just to
name a few.440/34 The next closest document of antiquity
is the Iliad by Homer which has only 643 manuscripts that
still survive. The Iliadwas written in 900 B.C. The earliest
surviving copy today dates the 13th century A.D.158/145
That means that the earliest known surviving copy survives 2,100
years from the original document. In contrast, The New Testament was
completed between A.D. 85-90 and the earliest surviving copy we have
today is A.D. 125. That means the earliest known surviving copy is
only 35 years from the original completion of the writing of the New
Testament.158/145

Whereas there is as much as five percent changes
in the text of Iliad from the original, less than one-half of
one percent changes are found in the New Testament to the Original.159/366
Of this onehalf of one percent changes, their adoption or rejection
cause no appreciable difference in the sense of the passages where
they occur.160/14 Philip Schaff in his book,
Comparison to the Greek Testament and the English Version, said
the following about these variations in the New Testament: Not one
of the variations altered, ". . . an article of faith or a precept
of duty which is not abundantly sustained by other and undoubted
passages, or by the whole tenor of Scripture teaching."161/177
Geisler and Nix state,

"Only about one-eighth of all the variants had
any weight, as most of them are merely mechanical matters such as
spelling or style. Of the whole then, only about one-sixtieth rise
above ‘trivialities,’ or can in any sense be called ‘substantial
variations.’ Mathematically this would compute to a text that is
98.33 percent pure."159/365

Due to the existing number of manuscripts of the
New Testament, of early translations from it and due to the number
of quotations made by early Church fathers from it, any doubtful
passage is able to be checked for accuracy through these ancient
authorities. This cannot be said of any other existing manuscript in
the world.162/23

Do the early Church Fathers support manuscript
reliability? Prior to the Council of Nicea (A.D. 325) the
Church Fathers Clement of Rome (A.D. 95), Irenaeus (A.D. 180),
Ignatius Bishop of Antioch (A.D. 70-110), Polycarp Bishop of Smyrna
(A.D. 70-156), Clement of Alexandria (A.D. 150-212), Tertullian
presbyter of the Church in Carthage (A.D. 160- 220), Hippolytus
(A.D. 170-235), Justin Martyr (A.D. 133), Origen
(A.D.185-253),Cyprian Bishop of Carthage (died A.D. 258) made over
32,000 quotations from the New Testament.159/353-354 If
all manuscripts and translations of the New Testament were destroyed
today, all but eleven verses of the New Testament
could be reconstructed from the quotes of the New Testament made by
the Church Fathers stated above.34/50-51

We have a large number of Roman official records.
We also have a large number of Christian writings that have survived
the first century. Despite this fact, in all these writings there is
not one single eyewitness account of the events recorded in the
Gospels that contradicts what we have recorded in the Gospels. Any
lawyer or judge would attest to how important and confirming this is
to the reliability and truthfulness of the Gospel records.288/30

Tertullian and Jerome, early Church Fathers,
record an account of a presbyter from Asia, Turkey who published a
counterfeit epistle that he claimed the apostle Paul had written.
What happened as a result? Instantly the Universal Church set forth
an ecclesiastical trial to examine this claim. The end result was
that they found it to be a counterfeit, convicted the presbyter and
exposed and published throughout the Church that it was a forgery.288/30
We can see from this example how vigilant the Church was to prevent
corruption and assure preservation of genuine Biblical MSS. Because
of the widespread copying and translations of the New Testament
throughout the world, it was virtually impossible for someone to
corrupt the text or add a book without immediate criticism and
repudiation from the Church.

Old Testament

How Old Testament Manuscripts
Were Handed Down

How about the Old Testament?
How reliable is it? According to Jewish Talmuds
and Targums,
the Scribes whose job it was to copy and preserve Old Testament
books were called
Masoretic. The Hebrew Word means
wall
or fence.
Their careful and meticulous copying of the Old Testament
manuscript, which today is known as the Masoretic Text,
was a fence of protection in keeping the text absolutely accurate to
the original.288/14

When I say absolutely accurate I mean just
that. They did not just copy the text like we do when we copy a
verse from the Bible by reading the phrase and then copying the
phrase. They were absolutely meticulous. How meticulous? They
had counted and knew exactly how many letters, for example, were in
the book of Genesis: 78,064. They knew more than that: they new
exactly how many letters of each letter of the alphabet were in the
book of Genesis. They also knew how many letters there were from the
beginning of the text and from the end of the text to the middle of
the text. They also knew what the middle letter in the book of
Genesis was to be.

After copying a book of the Bible, if after
counting from the ends to the middle the count was not accurate or
the letter in the middle was not correct, or there were more or less
letters of any given letter of the alphabet than there should have
been, that manuscript was discarded and burned because of its
unreliability to the original text.164/89

The Oldest
Biblical Manuscripts & Inscription

What kind of proof do we have
of just how meticulous they did protect the accuracy of a copy from
the original? Up until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls
dated 150-200 B.C.,
the most recent manuscript
that we had of the Old
Testament was dated A.D. 980.

New Testament:

the earliest known surviving copy
is only 35 years from the original

What about the Dead Sea Scrolls? These Scrolls
are made up of some 40,000 inscribed fragments. From these fragments
more than 500 books have been reconstructed. They were first found
in February or March of 1947 by a Bedouin shepherd boy by the name
of Muhammad in a cave on a cliff on the west side of the Dead Sea
about eight miles south of Jericho. They had been placed there
around A.D. 68 by the Qumran religious community.167/48-49

The value of the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) were that
the oldest most recent Hebrew MSS we possessed up to this discovery
was 980 A.D. Because this was true, until the discovery of the DSS
we had no way of knowing that what we had was an accurate
transmission since the time of Christ. The Hebrew Text of Isaiah was
dated at 125 B.C., more than 1000 years older than the Hebrew Text
of Isaiah we possessed. When our most recent copy of the Hebrew Text
of Isaiah was compared with the DSS MSS, it was found to be more
than ninety-five percent identical, and the five percent of
variation consisted mainly in slips of the pen and variations in
spelling.163/10 The variations that existed in no way
changed the meaning or communication of the text.

Gleason Archer in his book, Survey of the Old
Testament, comments that despite the fact that these manuscripts
were a thousand years apart, that "they proved to be word for word
identical with our standard Hebrew Bible in more than 95 percent of
the text."163/25 He further commented that the five
percent variation in the texts consisted only of slips of the pen
and variations in spelling, not in what was written or taught in the
text which means that the teachings of the manuscripts weren’t
altered at all.

Dr. Robert Dick Wilson, formerly professor of
Semitic philology at Princeton Theological Seminary who mastered
more than 35 languages of ancient orient, commented in his book,
A Scientific Investigation of the Old Testament, that in over
144 cases of transliteration from Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian and
Moabite into Hebrew and in 40 cases of the opposite that for more
than 3,400 years proper names of the Hebrew Bible had been
transmitted with absolute minutest accuracy. He states, "that the
Hebrew text should have been transmitted by copyists through so many
centuries is a phenomenon unequaled in the history of literature."
166/71 These proper names consist of forty kings that
lived from 2000 B.C. to 400 B.C. Confirmed by history these names
occur in the Old Testament in absolute chronological order. The
probability of such close conformity to correct philological
principles and accuracy is 1 chance in 75 x 1022.166/71
Concerning this accuracy, Wilson concludes:

"The proof that the copies of the original
documents have been handed down with substantial correctness for
more than 2,000 years cannot be denied. That the copies in existence
2,000 years ago had been in like manner handed down from the
originals is not merely possible, but, as we have shown, is rendered
probable by

the analogies of Babylonian documents now
existing of which we have both originals and copies, thousands of
years apart, and of scores of papyri which show when compared with
our modern editions of the classics that only minor changes of the
text have taken place in more than 2,000 years and especially by the
scientific and demonstrateable accuracy with which the proper
spelling of the names of kings and of the numerous foreign terms
embedded in the Hebrew text has been transmitted to us." 166/85

More than a thousand years ago a group of Jews
called Yemenite Jews were separated from their Jewish brethren in
the Middle East and Europe. During all this time both groups until
the printing press meticulously copied from their verified accurate
copies of the original. After a thousand years of separation, when
their copies of the Torah were compared, only nine letters
out of 304,805 letters in the Yemenite Torah differed from the
accepted Hebrew Masoretic text of the Torah.

The oldest known Biblical inscription in
existence was found by some archaeologists among some Jewelry and
pottery in caves across the Hinnom Valley which dated 700 B.C.288/15-16
These caves were south of the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem.
This was confirmed to the Associated Press by Tel Aviv
archaeologist Gabriel Barkay. On one of the pieces of Jewelry was
inscribed Numbers 6:24-26.

Samaritans were a group of colonists that were
imported into the West Bank of Israel around 700 B.C. by the
Assyrians to repopulate the area after they took the Israelite
population of the ten northern tribes in chains back to Assyria
(modern Iraq-Iran). Discovered was a Samaritan Torah which contained
every single word found in the Hebrew text of the Torah.288/35
The Samaritans careful preservation of the Torah proves that we have
the original unaltered writings of Moses.

Dr. Robert Dick Wilson, comments,

"After forty-five years of scholarly research in
biblical textual studies and in language study, I have come now to
the conviction that no man knows enough to assail the truthfulness
of the Old Testament. When there is sufficient documentary evidence
to make an investigation, the statement of the Bible, in the
original text, has stood the test."289/391

Flavius Josephus (37-100 A.D.), a Jewish and
Roman historian, wrote concerning the Old Testament:

"We have given practical proof of our reverence
for our own Scriptures. For, although such long ages have now
passed, no one has ventured either to add, or to remove, or to alter
a syllable; and it is an instinct with every Jew, from the day of
his birth, to regard them as the decrees of God, to abide by them,
and if need be, cheerfully to die for them. Time and again ere now
the sight has been witnessed of prisoners enduring tortures and
death in every form in the theaters, rather than utter a single word
against the laws and the allied documents." 165/179-180

INTERNAL

EVIDENCE

The Mystery of Hebrew
Encoding

When I was in college, after completing two
semesters of systematic theology which covered many different
theories of biblical inspiration, I spent a part of my summer
vacation seeking the Lord about what the proper view of Scripture
was to be? I received my answer while reading through the book of
Matthew. I came to Matthew 5:17-18 to
read Jesus saying the following:

"Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or
the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill. For truly I
say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one yod or one
tittle shall pass away from the Law, until all is accomplished."

In this passage Jesus taught that every single
letter and mark in the Bible is inspired as it appears in the
original Hebrew and Greek.

In a later Chapter in this book we will cover Old
Testament Prophecies relating to Jesus and modern times. However, in
all the thousands of prophecies that are given in the Bible, there
are no word for word prophecies given about America, at least not on
the surface. Have you ever wondered or heard anyone ask the
question, "Where is America in Prophecy?" I have many times. Until
recently, many events of the present, outside of Israel, did not
seem to be in the Bible. But a recent discovery called Hebrew
Encoding has changed all this.

For the past 100 years and more we have seen an
all out attack on the reliability of the Judeo-Christian Scriptures.
Something wonderful, however, happened that has changed this
dramatically: it is the ability to use computers to check the
reliability of the scriptures in the original languages of the
Scripture down to the letter. This has come about through a process
that is called ELS:
Equidistant
Letter Sequences.
Grant R. Jeffery in his book, The Signature of God, explains:

"Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl, a brilliant
Czechoslovakian Jewish scholar in astronomy, mathematics, and Judaic
studies, found an obscure reference in a book by a
fourteenth-century rabbi known as Rabbeynu Bachayah that described a
pattern of letters encoded within the Torah. This discovery during
the years before World War I inspired Rabbi Weissmandl to begin
exploring for other examples of codes hidden within the Torah.
During the war years he found that he could locate certain
meaningful words or phrases, such as hammer and anvil, if he
examined the letters at sequences that were equally spaced in the
Hebrew text. In other words, if he found the first letter of a
significant word such as Torah, and then, by skipping forward seven
letters he found the second letter of the word Torah, he continued
to skip forward the same number of letters to see whether or not the
complete word Torah was spelled out in the text at equally spaced
intervals. Rabbi Weissmandl described this phenomenon as
‘equidistant letter sequences’ (ELS).
The rabbi was astonished to find that an incredible number of
significant words were hidden in code within the text of the Torah
at equally spaced intervals. These spaced intervals between
significant letters varied from every five letters, every seven
letters, and numerous other intervals. However, once they found a
particular word spelled out at, say every 22nd letter, the balance
of the letters from the words in this group were also spaced at an
interval of every 22nd letter."288/202-203

To the astonishment of scientists, in both the
secular as well as the religious world, they have found in the
Judeo-Christian Bible encoded words describing future events and
personalities in human history from ancient times up to and
including the present. Daniel shares in the book of Daniel that many
of the things God showed Daniel about the last days were not to be
revealed until the end times. Whether the discovery of
ELS
is the fulfillment of this prophecy no one can say absolutely, but
the end result of running this program on the ancient Masoretic text
of the Old Testament have been absolutely astonishing. By applying
it to the Torah, the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old
Testament written by Moses, the following is a sample of what has
been found in the hidden codes in the Masoretic Text:

For a start the word Torah was found
encoded in Genesis 1:1,
Exodus 1:1 and in Numbers and
Deuteronomy over and over again. The word Eden is found
encoded sixteen times between Genesis 2:4-10.
This was just the tip of the ice berg. Also found encoded in the
Masoretic text of the Book of Deuteronomy were the words Hitler
and Nazis. Hidden close to the words Hitler and
Berlin were the names of the death camps Auschwitz and
Belsen. Also the phrases King of the
Nazis near the phrase an evil house rose up (Deut 33:16).
In Deuteronomy was found the name Eichmann who was
responsible for the system of death camps which led to the
extermination of 6 million Jews. In Deuteronomy 33:21 were is found
Israel and the phrase a people cry murder, slaughter.

The name of the late Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat occurred together with the name of the leader of the
Moslem Brotherhood assassination team that killed him. The code
sequence also contained the year of his assassination: 1981
with the words president, gunfire, shot, parade, and
murder. He was assassinated during a review of a military parade
in 1981.

Also in the hidden code of the Torah are names
and phrases related to the French Revolution. Close together are:
The French Revolution, Louis (The French King), House of
Bourbon (his royal dynasty) Hamarseilles (The name of the
French National anthem), and Bastillia (the infamous French
prison for political prisoners). These are found astoundingly
between Genesis chapters 39-41 which describe Joseph’s imprisonment
in Egypt.

"Ah! Common Dale! This is a bunch of fantasy!" Is
it? These Hebrew coded words and phrases have been studied by a
secular publication called Statistical Science. They
published their findings in the August 1994 issue. Their conclusions
were that the embedded codes were legitimate. This encoding had also
been studied by Professor Harold Gans, a senior researcher who
examined sophisticated foreign government intelligence codes for the
U.S. Army. The end result of his study is that he confirms the
existence of these codes as reported in Statistical Journal
and that they could not have happened by chance or by human design.
As a result of his discoveries, he is now teaching classes in
synagogues throughout the world about the incredible evidence
proving divine authorship of the Bible.288/217 The end
result is that many liberal Jews have come back to a literal belief
in the Old Testament teachings.

Another astonishing discovery made in the Hebrew
codes in the Torah was a discription about our Desert Storm
war in January, 1991. Codes revealed the following word phrases
concerning the Gulf war: the name Saddam; Scud-B and
Russian; They shut the door possibly referring to the
Israelites protecting themselves from chemical warfare; the phrase
the missile will terrify followed by the 3rd of Shevat
the actual day in the Hebrew calendar the first missiles hit Israel.
Astonishingly the names America (

hqyrma),
Iraq, in Saudi Arabia, Schwarzkopf and
George Bush. Also found were CNN together with the name
Peter Arnet the famous CNN reporter who broadcast from Bagdad
during the war.

A few years ago Yassir Arafat shook hands with
Yitzchak Rabin during the signing of the Declaration of Principles
on the White House lawn. Again this event was hidden in the Hebrew
Code written by Moses 3,500 years ago. Dr. Moshe Katz, a Israeli
Hebrew Code scholar, wrote in his book, Computorah — Hidden codes
in the Torah, that they discovered the names of Arafat
and Rabin in Genesis 32:23-26. They also found the code
words: Arafat — shook the hand — of Rabin along with the
phrase: not a real peace. Along with the name Rabin
were the phrases first-born son together with head and
Israel. Rabin was the first Prime Minister of Israel born in
Israel. Also revealed in these Hebrew codes was Yitzchak Rabin’s
assassination.

Also found encoded were the history of King David
and his kingdom, Jewish sages with their actual dates of birth and
death and the actual cities in which they were born.

Also found by Dr. Mitcham were Hebrew Codes about
September 11 starting with Psalm
23:4 which states "Even though I walk through the valley of
the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod
and Your staff, they comfort me." The words found encoded were
September 11, 2001 with World Trade Center
and President George Bush. Within the passage Psalm 19:2-4 are
encoded all the names of the Satellites in orbit above the earth and
the names of some of the scientists involved in developing these
satellites. Psalm 19:2-4
states,

"Day to day pours forth speech, and night to
night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words;
their voice is not heard. Their line has gone out through all the
earth, and their utterances to the end of the world. In them He has
placed a tent for the sun."

Satellites communicate digital information which
cannot be heard until translated through our computers, TV screens
or through our cell phones. This speech today, because of
geosynchronous orbiting satellites, can be heard anywhere on the
earth. "Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their
utterances to the end of the world." For more information See the
book titled September 11 Is in the
Bible Code authored by Drs Larry Mitchan, and Clifford and
Barbara Wilson.

The name of our Messiah, Jesus, was found
in the Hebrew Code. The name for Jesus in Hebrew is Yeshua (

[Wvy).
The name means: Yehovah is Savior.286 Jesus is
Yehovah God of the Old Testament in the flesh. Repeated over and
over in the Hebrew Code is Yeshua is My Name. Jesus’ name
Yeshua is first encoded in Genesis 1:1. In Genesis is encoded
Yeshua is able. Amazingly Jesus name is encoded in passages that
talk about the coming Messiah in the Old Testament. Isaiah 53:10
reveals that Jesus would suffer for our sins. Encoded in this
passage is Yeshua is My name telling us who the Messiah would
be. Jeffrey R. Grant states that for this to happen by chance is 1
chance in 50 quadrillion.288/225 Zechariah 11:12 is the
prophecy about Judas selling out Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.
Encoded in this verse is the name Yeshua who was sold by
Judas for 30 pieces of silver, the price of a slave. In the book of
Leviticus 21:10-12 is encoded the phrase: Behold! The blood of
Yeshua. Found encoded in Psalm 41:7-10 which is a prophecy about
Judas’s betrayal of Christ was they plot evil against
Yeshua. Because of the discovery of Hebrew encoding many
agnostic Jews have come back to Yehovah and his Scriptures. Now
because of the Hebrew Encoding they also know who the Messiah is:
Yehovah Elohim in the flesh: Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

Why weren’t these codes discovered long ago? They
would not have any meaning long ago since these people, places and
names did not exist until now. Yes, America and the modern Middle
East are in the Bible but hidden in the text until their revelation
would have meaning and now at a time when the world needs to know
that the Bible is the Word of God Absolutely. God told Daniel
through the angel recorded in:

Daniel 12:8-9

"As for me, I heard but
could not understand; so I said, ‘My lord, what will be the outcome
of these events?’ And he said, ‘Go your way, Daniel, for these words
are concealed and sealed up until the end time.’"

We are in the last days, the final hour.

Then there is the amazing
Image Bible Codestoo complicated to explain here:http://www.bible-codes.org/

How does the discovery of the Hebrew Encoding
prove that God inspired, led and controlled men’s writing of every
letter in the Bible? There is 1 chance in 50 quadrillion of these
codes being produced in the text by chance. How complicated is this
Hebrew encoding? So complicated is this encoding that taking any
phrase and trying to do the same in English or Hebrew cannot be
duplicated by man or computer. It is absolute evidence of God’s
absolute control over every letter and word and order of the letters
and words written in the Bible and their preservation over 3,500
years of time. They also confirm absolutely Jesus’ words that not
one letter of Scripture would pass away or be corrupted until all
would be fulfilled. The Hebrew Codes in Scripture give us absolute
proof and confirmation of Jesus’ words. The Torah Codes Program
is available in both IBM-compatible and Macintosh format from
Frontier Research Publications, Inc.321

What is the significance of the discovery of
Hebrew Encoding and how does this relate to how reliable the
Manuscripts of the Bible we have are? It proves, as we will discuss
in the next few Chapters as well, that the first five books of the
Bible, the Torah written by Moses, could not have been made
up or accumulated over several hundreds of years with several
editors adding from time to time additional material. This is known
as the Documentary Hypothesis formulated by Julius Welhausen
and his associates in 1895. If this were to have happened, there
would be no Hebrew Codes to find since the original text would then
have been corrupted. It proves that the manuscripts of the Bible we
have today are the same letter for letter text of the Bible they
were originally written in by Moses and the rest of the authors of
the Bible. Also, it proves that no man himself, despite all his
modern technology, could have written these manuscripts without
direct outside letter for letter instruction in doing so from a far
higher intelligence than man himself. Finally, it proves beyond a
reasonable doubt that Yehovah Elohim, Jesus Christ Himself, as
the Bible claims, is the author of the Judeo-Christian Bible, the
author of this book alone. The Apostles Paul and Peter wrote under
the Inspiration of God:

2 Timothy 3:16-17

"All Scripture is
give-by-inspiration-of-God324 and profitable for teaching
for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; that the
man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work."

2 Peter 1:20-21

"But know this first of
all, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of
one’s-own-authority-to-loose380
to-cause-to-come-into-existence381, for no prophecy
was-ever brought-forth382 by the will of man, but
being-brought-forth383 by the Holy Spirit, men of God
spoke384."

The Mathematical Preciseness of

Every LetterIn TheBible

Another confirmation of Jesus’ Words that every
letter is inspired in the Scriptures is the mathematical
preciseness of the Scriptures. So mathematically precise are the
Scriptures that again neither man nor our computers can duplicate
it.

Ivan Panin, a famous early century mathematician
left Russia to eventually settle in Canada in the town of Aldershot,
Ontario. Ivan had been a committed atheist early in his life, but
also early in his life he found Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. In
1890 Panin begin a scientific exploration of the text of the Bible
that would last for fifty years which would prove God’s letter
inspiration of the Bible.

In this study he discovered that the letters and
words of the Bible were in a precise mathematical order. To fully
understand this, one needs to understand that the languages that the
Old Testament and the New Testament are written in are alphanumeric.
This means that the letters of their alphabet are also their
mathematical numbers. If this were true in the English alphabet it
would mean that A would be 1, B would be 2, C
would be 3 and so on. This is true of the Hebrew and the Greek
alphabets. Each letter is also a number. Because each letter had a
numeric value, every word can be given a Numeric value by
adding up the total value of each of the individual letters.

For example: Genesis 1:1
states, "In the Beginning Elohim created the Heaven and the Earth."
The word Beginning in Hebrew is

tyviareB].
It has a numeric value of 913. As a result we can add up all the
words in a sentence to determine its numeric value. What Panin
discovered was that in both the first Chapter of Genesis as well as
in the first Chapter of Matthew is an astonishing order of multiples
of 7 that scientifically cannot be explained as happening by chance.
The significance of this is that the number seven in the Bible is
the number for God, the number of perfection. There were 7 days of
creation, God rested on the seventh day. In the book of Revelation,
Jesus through John wrote to the seven Churches. Revelation talks
about 7 trumpets. In Genesis 1:1 Panin discovered 30 mathematical
multiples of 7.

Some professors of mathematics at Harvard
University tried to disprove its significance of evidence of God’s
divine authorship in the Scriptures. What was the end result? The
end result was that they found that they could not artificially
duplicate this phenomenon in the book of Genesis in English. There
were only 4,500 words in the Hebrew vocabulary in Old Testament
times. At the time of this investigation there were over 400,000
words in the English Language. Despite this greater advantage and
the advanced knowledge of mathematics and the use of computers they
were not able to duplicate this phenomenon of 30 mathematical
multiples of 7.

If you would like to read Panin’s complete work
on this it is published in his book, The Inspiration of the
Scriptures Scientifically Demonstrated. Panin searched for this
pattern in literature outside the Bible. Neither he nor anyone else
has ever been able to find this phenomenon in ancient or recent
literature. It is only found in the Bible in both the Hebrew and the
Greek texts.

Getting back to our original question: How
reliable are the manuscript copies of the
Bible we have today? In
light of the evidence presented in this Chapter, we can say without
wavering,The Bible:
ABSOLUTELY ReliableAfter Two-Thousand Years
Of Transmission!